Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar

Young Fathers - Cocoa SugarIn November 2017, Young Fathers announced that theyd completed work on a new album. The trio Alloysious Massaquoi, Graham G Hastings and Kayus Bankole marked the news by previewing a brand new song, Lord and a subsequent accompanying video. Just like their previous standalone 2017 single Only God Knows (written for the Trainspotting T2 film and described by director Danny Boyle as the heartbeat of the film), Lord provided an enticing glimpse of what

Earth (and it's mainstay member Dylan Carlson) first appeared in the early 90's and came to prominence with their Sub Pop release "Earth 2"

placing their music at the heart of a small American town

from a collection of musicians who can - like Dorian - count themselves in the electronic vanguard

The album’s art has been lovingly designed by Leif Podhajsky

“And the following week

main man Lars Horntveth describes the new sound

Brooklyn NY

” The nostalgic super 8 film aesthetic features styling by Alexea Brown and glimpses into Bey’s polaroid photography

one half of Sepalcure (Hot Flush) with Braille and one half of Dream Continuum with Om Unit

all-out energy

dust-covered beats and languid daydreams to cascading shuffles and bright bursts of color

Which is why Everybody Down is something like a “novel rhyme” – twelve ‘chapters’ telling one long